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2 charged with living off earnings of prostitutes
By Leong Wai Kit
POSTED: 17 Apr 2013 4:35 PM
Two India nationals have been charged with living off the earnings of four India national women who worked as prostitutes in Singapore.
SINGAPORE: Two India nationals have been charged with living off the earnings of four India national women who worked as prostitutes in Singapore.
The men - Balakrishnan Tamil Selvan, 28, and Kannaiya Ananthaprabu, 25 - are believed to have committed the offences between February and April this year.
Balakrishnan is also accused of procuring two of the women in February 2013 to work as prostitutes in Singapore.
The maximum penalty for procuring women to Singapore for prostitution is five years' jail and a S$10,000 fine.
For living off the earnings of a prostitute, each man faces up to five years' jail and a S$10,000 fine.
The case will be heard again on 29 April.
- CNA/ck
